Charles Mules

Who was Charles Mules?

The Rt Rev Charles Oliver Mules, DD was the third Anglican Bishop of Nelson, whose Episcopate spanned a 20 year period during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1864. After a curacy at Whorlton, County Durham he emigrated to New Zealand to work under the Bishop of Nelson, Andrew Burn Suter. He was Vicar of Brightwater then Archdeacon of Waimea before succeeding Suter.

After resigning his see he lived at Trafalgar Square in the city until his death on 9 October 1927. He is buried at St Michael’s, Waimea West.